NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 vs NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

VS

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

We compared two Desktop platform GPUs: 6GB VRAM GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 and 12GB VRAM GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB to see which GPU has better performance in key specifications, benchmark tests, power consumption, etc.

Main Differences

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2 's Advantages

Boost Clock has increased by 4% (1709MHz vs 1650MHz)

Lower TDP (120W vs 184W)

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB 's Advantages

Released 3 years and 11 months late

More VRAM (12GB vs 6GB)

Larger VRAM bandwidth (336.0GB/s vs 192.2GB/s)

896 additional rendering cores

Score

Benchmark

FP32 (float)

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

4.375 TFLOPS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB +64%

7.181 TFLOPS

GeForce GTX 1060 6 GB Rev. 2

VS

GeForce RTX 2060 12 GB

Graphics Card

Jan 2018

Release Date

Dec 2021

GeForce 10

Generation

GeForce 20

Desktop

Type

Desktop

PCIe 3.0 x16

Bus Interface

PCIe 3.0 x16

Clock Speeds

1506 MHz

Base Clock

1470 MHz

1709 MHz

Boost Clock

1650 MHz

2002 MHz

Memory Clock

1750 MHz

Memory

6GB

Memory Size

12GB

GDDR5

Memory Type

GDDR6

192bit

Memory Bus

192bit

192.2GB/s

Bandwidth

336.0GB/s

Render Config

-

10

SM Count

34

1280

Shading Units

2176

80

TMUs

136

48

ROPs

48

-

Tensor Cores

272

-

RT Cores

34

48 KB (per SM)

L1 Cache

64 KB (per SM)

1536 KB

L2 Cache

3 MB

-

Theoretical Performance

82.03 GPixel/s

Pixel Rate

79.20 GPixel/s

136.7 GTexel/s

Texture Rate

224.4 GTexel/s

68.36 GFLOPS

FP16 (half)

14.36 TFLOPS

4.375 TFLOPS

FP32 (float)

7.181 TFLOPS

136.7 GFLOPS

FP64 (double)

224.4 GFLOPS

Board Design

120W

TDP

184W

300 W

Suggested PSU

450 W

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 3x DisplayPort 1.4a

Outputs

1x DVI 1x HDMI 2.0 2x DisplayPort 1.4a 1x USB Type-C

1x 6-pin

Power Connectors

1x 8-pin

Graphics Processor

GP106

GPU Name

TU106

GP106-400-A1

GPU Variant

TU106-300-KA-A1

Pascal

Architecture

Turing

TSMC

Foundry

TSMC

16 nm

Process Size

12 nm

4.4 billion

Transistors

10.8 billion

200 mm²

Die Size

445 mm²

Graphics Features

12 (12_1)

DirectX

12 Ultimate (12_2)

4.6

OpenGL

4.6

3.0

OpenCL

3.0

1.3

Vulkan

1.3

6.1

CUDA

7.5

6.4

Shader Model

6.6

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